lix/doc/manual/rl-next/inherit-error-positions.md

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synopsis: fix duplicate attribute error positions for `inherit`
prs: 9874
credits: horrors
category: Fixes
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When an inherit caused a duplicate attribute error, the position of the error was not reported correctly, placing the error with the inherit itself or at the start of the bindings block instead of the offending attribute name.
report inherit attr errors at the duplicate name previously we reported the error at the beginning of the binding block (for plain inherits) or the beginning of the attr list (for inherit-from), effectively hiding where exactly the error happened. this also carries over to runtime positions of attributes in sets as reported by unsafeGetAttrPos. we're not worried about this changing observable eval behavior because it is marked unsafe, and the new behavior is much more useful. (cherry picked from commit 1edd6fada53553b89847ac3981ac28025857ca02) Change-Id: I2f50eb9f3dc3977db4eb3e3da96f1cb37ccd5174 2024-01-29 05:19:23 +00:00			`---`
			synopsis: fix duplicate attribute error positions for `inherit`
			`prs: 9874`
doc: add release note credits and categories for all the changes in Lix This does not add missing release notes, and it doesn't do anything about the profiles feature we would really like to have so we can have consistent credit. Change-Id: I72a6f7acfcff85f380be17dac76501a6f4693776 2024-05-15 02:14:58 +00:00			`credits: horrors`
			`category: Fixes`
report inherit attr errors at the duplicate name previously we reported the error at the beginning of the binding block (for plain inherits) or the beginning of the attr list (for inherit-from), effectively hiding where exactly the error happened. this also carries over to runtime positions of attributes in sets as reported by unsafeGetAttrPos. we're not worried about this changing observable eval behavior because it is marked unsafe, and the new behavior is much more useful. (cherry picked from commit 1edd6fada53553b89847ac3981ac28025857ca02) Change-Id: I2f50eb9f3dc3977db4eb3e3da96f1cb37ccd5174 2024-01-29 05:19:23 +00:00			`---`

doc: add release note credits and categories for all the changes in Lix This does not add missing release notes, and it doesn't do anything about the profiles feature we would really like to have so we can have consistent credit. Change-Id: I72a6f7acfcff85f380be17dac76501a6f4693776 2024-05-15 02:14:58 +00:00			`When an inherit caused a duplicate attribute error, the position of the error was not reported correctly, placing the error with the inherit itself or at the start of the bindings block instead of the offending attribute name.`